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But mendez knows a care package is little comfort for all the troops who may not get paid if will is a government shutdown. mendez-tobar's son is serving in afghanistan. >> he has four children that he's supporting and if this government shuts down and he doesn't get paid, i don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: the founder and president of operation support our troops has been on the phone nonstop taking calls from worried military families. the mother of two sons in the service, she says most soldiers live paycheck to paycheck. >> we have a lot of families that are really, really s...

The question is, who's going to move? as you know, as we've talked about, the house has had a bill in the senate now for nearly 50 days and the senate hasn't acted. where's the compromise going to come? do they need to come to us? do we need to be negotiating with ourselves? that's what we're not interested in doing is negotiating with ourselves. >> thanks for answering my question. let's move on now. whoever you want to blame, a showdown will hurt real people. you have to admit that. i want you to take a listen to a story out of chicago about military families then we'll talk about it. >> rep...

President of operation support our troops has been on the phone nonstop taking calls from worried military families. the mother of two sons in the service, she says most soldiers live paycheck to paycheck. >> we have a lot of families that are really, really stressed with multiple deployments. i wonder how much more our military families can take. >> the fear there, palpable, congressman. >> sure is. >> what do you say to those two women? >> first we say thanks so much to all the men and women who are serving and their families who are sacrificing so much. that's why the house passed a bill to...